The Space Shuttle Columbia accident remains one of the most tragic and significant events in the history of space exploration ...

On 1 February, 2003, the world watched in shock as Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated ... into the cause of the disaster. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board concluded that the foam strike had ...

leading to the same oversight issues that caused the fatal foam strike on January 16, 2003. Here are the failures that doomed the Columbia space shuttle. Like the rest of the space shuttle fleet ...

leading to the same oversight issues that caused the fatal foam strike on January 16, 2003. Here are the failures that doomed the Columbia space shuttle. Read more: 5 Forgotten PS3 Features That ...

Forty-three years to the day after the space ... that sealed Columbia's fate was known to NASA engineers from almost the first day the orbiter took flight. Foam covering the shuttle's external ...

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers ... email from mission control alerting them about the foam strike on the eighth day of their mission, reassuring ...

as the Columbia made its descent from space, superheated atmospheric gases entered through the gaping hole left by the dislodged chunk of foam. The structure was compromised and the shuttle ...

Deemed an “engineering marvel,” the first of five winged orbiters — the space shuttle Columbia — made its ... control alerting them about the foam strike on the eighth day of their mission ...

On the morning of February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as ... Rick Husband and William McCool – of the foam strike in an email, including a video clip of the impact.

WASHINGTON - On February 1, 2003, seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry. Columbia disintegrated upon reentry after a piece of fuel-tank foam ...